We are migrating into a larger NetBackup 4.5 domain and we are needing to change from using a Unix media server to a Windows media server.  We also cannot use NDMP at this time.  Both restrictions are mostly due to political, management, and budget reasons.  So our choices as I see it are:

- Use PCNFS to backup/restore the NFS data and CIFS shares to backup CIFS data.
- Use CIFS shares to backup/restore both NFS and CIFS data
- Any others?

We tried both of the above and neither worked perfectly.  After opening more security holes than I would have liked, we were able to backup the data successfully both ways. But the restores gave the errors at the end of this message.  I'm not necessarily looking for a fix for the problems below, however it would be nice to know why this is happening.  What I am looking for is the most reliable and secure method to backup our 12 filers using NetBackup 4.5 without using NDMP or a Unix media server.  I think the most convenient would be to use the CIFS shares to backup all, but we have volumes that have both NFS and CIFS data inside.  So, I�m a little weary about the recovery of file permission.  I know the NFS permissions will still be there, but how would I actually recover the data from the Windows media server?  When we recovered the NFS data to a NFS qtree from the Windows media server, it created files that I had to go into the netapp.jsh cli to delete, and 2 files that I have no idea how to delete since nobody can delete from any platform and netapp.jsh says it cannot delete the file (Does anyone know how I can delete these files? I have the cifs.ignore_acl_for_nfs_root option on).

I would rather not use the PCNFS solution because it seems to be a bit insecure�or maybe I�m not setting it up correctly.  Thanks in advance,
Jeff

 
1/26/2004 2:45:13 PM mediaServer mediaServer Warning 276 Retrieve from client mediaServer: WRN - error writing file: \\netappRestore\etc\log\ems.4 (err=WIN32 282: The mounted file system does not support extended attributes. )
1/26/2004 2:45:14 PM mediaServer mediaServer Warning 276 Retrieve from client mediaServer: WRN - error writing byte: 116736
1/26/2004 2:45:15 PM mediaServer mediaServer Warning 276 Retrieve from client mediaServer: WRN - wanted buffer size: 16485
1/26/2004 2:45:20 PM mediaServer mediaServer Warning 276 Retrieve from client mediaServer: WRN - can't create file: \\netappRestore\etc\boot\x86\firmware\rodan (WIN32 5: Access is denied. )
1/26/2004 2:46:12 PM mediaServer mediaServer Error 276 Retrieve client restore EXIT STATUS 5: the restore failed to recover the requested files
1/26/2004 2:49:33 PM mediaServer mediaServer Warning 277 Retrieve from client mediaServer: WRN - can't create file: \\netappBackup\C$\etc\zoneinfo\Asia\Makassar (WIN32 6: The handle is invalid. )
1/26/2004 2:49:52 PM mediaServer mediaServer Error 277 Retrieve client restore EXIT STATUS 1: the requested operation was partially successful